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Sustainability Specialists
Address organizational sustainability issues, such as waste stream management, green building practices, and green procurement plans.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Develop sustainability project goals, objectives, initiatives, or strategies in collaboration with other sustainability professionals.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Monitor or track sustainability indicators, such as energy usage, natural resource usage, waste generation, and recycling.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Assess or propose sustainability initiatives, considering factors such as cost effectiveness, technical feasibility, and acceptance.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Provide technical or administrative support for sustainability programs or issues.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Review and revise sustainability proposals or policies.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Develop reports or presentations to communicate the effectiveness of sustainability initiatives.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Create or maintain plans or other documents related to sustainability projects.AI could speed this up a lot
- 08Collect information about waste stream management or green building practices to inform decision makers.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Research or review regulatory, technical, or market issues related to sustainability.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Identify or investigate violations of natural resources, waste management, recycling, or other environmental policies.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss19%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
61%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 73% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.